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今
jīn
1. today
2. modern
3. present
4. current
5. this
6. now
Very Common • Top 3% ✏️ 4 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

今
jīn
modern, current; today, now
HSK 1 4 丶

Compound Words (20)

今世
jīnshì
this life
今人
jīnrén
modern people
今儿
jīnr
(coll.) today
今夜
jīnyè
tonight
今后
jīnhòu
hereafter
今日
jīnrì
today
今昔
jīnxī
past and present
今晚
jīnwǎn
tonight
今晨
jīnchén
this morning
今朝
jīnzhāo
at the present
今村
Jīncūn
Imamura (Japanese name)
今岁
jīnsuì
(literary) this year
今生
jīnshēng
this life
今译
jīnyì
modern language version
今音
jīnyīn
modern (i.e. not ancient) pronunciation of a Chinese character
古今
gǔjīn
then and now
如今
rújīn
nowadays
HSK 5
现今
xiànjīn
now
当今
dāngjīn
current
目今
mùjīn
nowadays

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
335
Word Frequency Rank
2,246 of 84,292

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